With Alex Rodriguez suspended without pay and the huge extensions Clayton Kershaw and Miguel Cabrera signed this offseason not yet paying them megabucks, Dodgers starter Zack Greinke — who signed a six-year, $147 million deal before the 2013 season — will make more money for playing baseball in 2014 than anyone else on earth.

Following Greinke on the list are the Phillies’ Ryan Howard and Cliff Lee, who will make $25 million apiece in 2014. Rounding out the Top 5 are two players who changed teams this offseason: New Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano and Rangers slugger Prince Fielder.

If you’re looking for the best players in baseball on the list, for the most part you’ll have to look elsewhere. By Wins Above Replacement (WAR), only two of the 10 highest-paid players for 2014 were among the 10 most valuable in 2013. Cano and Lee finished sixth and seventh overall in WAR, respectively.

Teixeira spent almost the entire 2013 season on the disabled list, and finished with -0.2 WAR. Howard, who spent plenty of time on the shelf himself, finished at 0.8.

In fact, the four first men on the list who were full-time first basemen in 2013 — Howard, Teixeira, Fielder and Pujols — combined to be worth about 4.5 wins to their teams last season and will make $95.125 million in 2014.

Mike Trout was worth 8.9 wins on his own in 2013, and will make $1 million in 2014.

MLB's highest-paid player will make $28 million and isn't even the best player on his team

USA TODAY Sports published its annual MLB salary database on Sunday, and the top-paid baseball player for 2014 will come as a surprise to (…)

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